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State police trooper Tessa Leoni claims to have killed her husband in self-defense, but detective D.D. Warren soon realizes it is far from an open-and-shut case when it is discovered that Tessa's six-year-old daughter is missing and the clues lead to a shocking conspiracy that could destroy them all.
2) Mystic river
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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This New York Times bestseller from Dennis Lehane is a gripping, unnerving psychological thriller about the effects of a savage killing on three former friends in a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood.
When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened—something
...3) Live to tell
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Veteran police detective D. D. Warren, investigating the apparent murder-suicide of four members of a Boston family, meets Danielle Burton, a dedicated nurse whose past haunts her, and Victoria Oliver, a mother who will do anything for her troubled son, and the lives of the three women unexpectedly become connected.
4) Catch me
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English
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Charlene Grant believes she will be murdered in four days and while she intends to flee or fight, wants to make sure that if she dies her murder will be investigated by Detective D.D. Warren, Boston's top detective.
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Boston attorney Brady Coyne receives a call from his old neighbor Ken Nichols, who was also his friend when each of them were happily married, and when Brady receives a call the next day from Nichols' ex-wife with news that Nichols is dead, Brady looks into the case.
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English
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Investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are once again asked to locate Amanda McCready, who is now sixteen-years-old and has been missing for weeks, but their efforts lead them to uncover a string of identity thieves, methamphetamine dealers, a crime boss, a priceless religious relic, and a homicidal Russian gangster.
8) School days
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Hired by a Massachusetts grand dame to prove the innocence of her grandson, who has been implicated in a school shooting, Spenser wonders why the boy seems unconcerned about his possible wrongful imprisonment.
11) Back story
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English
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Boston private detective Spenser finds himself at odds with mobster Sonny Karnofsky when his investigation of the decades-old murder of Emily Gordon, gunned down during a bank heist, turns up links to the killing of Karnofsky's daughter.
12) Walking shadow
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Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Spenser and Hawk solve the murder of an actor during the performance of a politically controversial play.
13) Widow's walk
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English
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Four Cassettes, 6 hrs. unabridged
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Boston's premier P.I investigates the murder of a prominent local banker, with family ties to the Mayflower - and perhaps the mob.
When fifty-one year old Nathan Smith, a confirmed bachelor, is found dead in his bed with a hole in his head made by a .38 caliber slug, it's hard not to imagine Nathan's young bride as the one with her finger on the trigger. Even her lawyer thinks she's guilty....
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Boston's premier P.I investigates the murder of a prominent local banker, with family ties to the Mayflower - and perhaps the mob.
When fifty-one year old Nathan Smith, a confirmed bachelor, is found dead in his bed with a hole in his head made by a .38 caliber slug, it's hard not to imagine Nathan's young bride as the one with her finger on the trigger. Even her lawyer thinks she's guilty....
14) The snake eater
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Series
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English
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Boston lawyer Brady Coyne helps a Vietnam veteran find an agent for a book he's written, but when the agent rejects it events take a deadly turn.
16) Now or never
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Boston police detective Harry Jordan's search for a killer who has been abducting young college students in New England leads him to seek national publicity from sensational investigative journalist Mallory Malone.
18) Blood dreams
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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FBI Special Crimes Unit agent Noah Bishop teams up with a team of female civilian contractors and psychic Dani Justice to track a serial killer whose last victim was a senator's daughter.
19) Double deuce
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1992
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English
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Spencer and his cohort Hawk investigate a murder in the housing projects of Boston and are drawn into a world of violence and hate.
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English
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Bonnie Wheeler reluctantly agrees to meet with her husband's ex-wife after the woman cautions her against an unknown danger, but when Bonnie arrives, she finds Joan has been murdered and learns to her horror that she is not only the main suspect, but that the dead woman's warning was true.
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